Rovio's latest release in the on-going Angry Birds franchise just sped its way onto iOS and Android mobile devices yesterday, and the game's already become a new center of controversy thanks to its inclusion of some crazily over-priced in-app purchase options and its huge emphasis on connecting with a massive array of physical toys. While the debates about Angry Birds Go!'s unique approach to making more millions will continue for some time (and we'll weigh in with our review soon), I wanted to take the opportunity to actually look at what the merchandise is that's contributing to some of the controversy -- because even if the overall opinion from gamers ends up being a largely negative one, the reality remains that Rovio will be making more millions from this move.

And who knows? If you've got some Angry Birds fans in your life, you might just decide that one or more of these tie-in toys would make a good Christmas gift for them.

Note: The prices and deals compiled below are accurate at the time we published this story, but all are subject to change.

An example of how Telepods work: placing the toys over the camera of your mobile device to teleport them into the game.

"Telepods" continue to be a major focus for Rovio's Angry Birds toy line, and most of this new Angry Birds Go! merchandise falls into that same product line. Telepods were first introduced through Angry Birds Star Wars II, and are a series of toys similar to Activision's Skylanders – you've got physical figurines to play with in the real world, but they can also be "teleported" into the video game and become playable characters there.

The lead-off Telepod product for Angry Birds Go! appears to be the Pig Rock Raceway, a small racetrack set that pits two of the bird characters side-by-side in a race through a few pig-equipped obstacles. (Both of the included racers can be Telepod-ed into the Angry Birds Go! app, of course.)

The next Telepods toy offers a different pair of birds that can also be brought into the video game, while in the real world they're flung side-by-side out of a plastic version of the series' signature slingshot.

Beyond the Pig Rock Raceway and Dual Launcher play sets, the Angry Birds Go! Telepod figurines are available individually in some toy stores – but a better value than picking them up one at a time would be investing in either of these multi-pack options.

Confusingly, it appears that not all of Hasbro's different Angry Birds Go! figurines feature the Telepod functionality. A remarkably similar-looking set of birds-in-karts toys are on sale now in a set of tower-toppling games cross-branded with Hasbro's Jenga name, and while you can use these versions of the toys to physically fling across your living room in the hopes of knocking down some blocks, they won't be able to be teleported into video game form.

In addition to the three standalone Angry Birds Go! Jenga games that contain all their needed components in one box, there's also a fourth game that can only be played by making six different purchases and then combining the contents of those half-dozen boxes together to build another Jenga tower. (Humorously, Hasbro's marketing each of these six boxes as a game unto itself – even though each one only contains a single block. What fun! One block to aim at!)

Finally, something for the littlest members of the household – a new version of the classic, simple Memory Game using the characters of Angry Birds Go! as the images to be flipped over a matched up into pairs.

And there you have it – Rovio and Hasbro's line of physical Angry Birds Go! tie-in toys. Some Telepods, some not. A whole lot of different Jenga options. (Who would have thought that the simple wood block game of Jenga would give rise to such a ubiquitous brand name?)

This is just scratching the surface of Angry Birds merchandise out there, of course, as if you want to fall down the rabbit hole further you could easily find clothes, plush toys, bed sheets and probably some breakfast cereals bearing the images of the furious flock. The over-merchandising could be seen as either laughable or offensive, but whatever the reaction, somebody at Rovio's getting more and more rich with each new branded item put out there.

Lucas M. Thomas is just waiting for the inevitable fusion of the world's two most over-merchandised pop culture brands: Angry Birds and Duck Dynasty. Come on, it's right there! They're both about birds! You can follow Lucas on Twitter, @lucasmthomas.